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News agency IANS suspends reporter after story uses expletive as Narendra Modi’s middle name

The news agency has also issued a show-cause notice to the editor involved.

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· Sep 13, 2018 · 03:58 pm
‘Yeddyurappa’s government was most corrupt’: Amit Shah’s faux pas leaves BJP red-faced

The party chief later corrected himself and said he meant to say Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

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· Mar 27, 2018 · 03:50 pm
Malaysia claims barking rooster advertisement to mark Year of the Dog was an error, faces ridicule

Some social media users accused the government of using the wrong animal because followers of Islam consider canines to be unclean.

Scroll Staff
· Feb 18, 2018 · 08:29 pm

After Twitter backlash, Priyanka Chopra apologises for saying Sikkim is ‘troubled with insurgency’

Tourism Minister Ugen T Gyatso had said the actor and producer’s comment was ‘very disappointing’.

Scroll Staff
· Sep 14, 2017 · 06:43 pm
‘Virgin means unmarried’: Bihar minister tries to clarify controversy over a Patna institute’s form

After drawing criticism, the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences issued a new marital status document, in which ‘virgin’ was replaced with ‘unmarried’.

Scroll Staff
· Aug 03, 2017 · 12:20 pm
Muhammad Ali was an eminent sports personality of Kerala, according to state sports minister

Reacting to the death of the boxing legend, EP Jayarajan said Ali won a gold medal for the state, thereby raising Kerala's position in the world.

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· Jun 05, 2016 · 08:37 am

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Video: When PM Modi saw M-R-S Sirisena on his teleprompter

In which Twitter gives the PM those ones for yet another blooper for misreading a reference to the visiting Sri Lankan president's wife.

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· Feb 18, 2015 · 01:59 pm

Faux Pas

News agency IANS suspends reporter after story uses expletive as Narendra Modi’s middle name

The news agency has also issued a show-cause notice to the editor involved.

Scroll Staff · Sep 13, 2018 · 03:58 pm

‘Yeddyurappa’s government was most corrupt’: Amit Shah’s faux pas leaves BJP red-faced

The party chief later corrected himself and said he meant to say Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

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Malaysia claims barking rooster advertisement to mark Year of the Dog was an error, faces ridicule

Some social media users accused the government of using the wrong animal because followers of Islam consider canines to be unclean.

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Video: When PM Modi saw M-R-S Sirisena on his teleprompter

In which Twitter gives the PM those ones for yet another blooper for misreading a reference to the visiting Sri Lankan president's wife.

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